The drama continues in a war of influence between premium and free-to-play. When Valve decided to move their hit multiplayer game, Team Fortress 2, into a free-to-play model, the reaction was of course mixed. Some welcomed the influx of new players while others groaned at the possibility of increased cheaters and griefers.

Spies may be the happiest at the new development as they are currently having the time of their lives backstabbing new players who don’t watch their back, don’t spy-check, and have no idea what a Dead Ringer does.

But of course, all is not well in the Team Fortress 2 community.

Unable to stand breathing the same oxygen any longer, the glorious premium master race has openly revolted against the dirty free-to-play peasantry by introducing a new server mod that segregates the two different accounts. The mod effectively allows administrators to adjust their private servers to automatically boot and/or ban any free-to-play account that attempts to log into their server.

One outraged player has even requested that Valve ban the new mod, but since this only affects private servers, it may as well fall on deaf ears.

Valve has yet to release any statement on the mod. We’ll keep you posted.

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Talk about being elitist. I’m a free to play player and damn i’m better than half the people who say that they bought years ago, so does that mean that i shouldn’t be able to play? I’m tired of people who bought the game thinking they are better, because you know what? they aren’t. They buy the game for 10 bucks or get it during christmas for 3 bucks and they think that they somehow better than the free to players for paying the equivalent of a candy bar or a 12 pack of coca cola? Obviously they don’t realize that they may pay once for $3-10 while a person who genuinely likes the game who free to plays can sped upwards of 300 dollars over a period of time, thus making a free to play a much more valuable investment. And hey, if the f2p player doesn’t like the game then they probably won’t play much anyway. So “premium” (and i use that term lightly) members are just being too butt hurt.

Banning people just because they are f2p gamers is silly. I’m not upset at all, I mean the orange box was a great deal at the time and it’s not exactly like we all went out of our way to purchase TF2 since it was included. As for skill, hey it’s more kills for the one playing against the new players no?

I can understand the resentment. We payed for the game, and now they get it for free. One of the only perks a paid player gets is a hat. I wouldn’t go as far as banning, but I hope this attention causes Valve to give us paid players more perks, and more of a thank you for being paying customers! 😆